Elon Musk Tweets, 2010 to April 2017

Elon Musk's tweets from 4 June 2010 to 5 April 2017: 2,819 tweets and replies, each with its tweet ID, creation time and text, as compiled by the data.world user adamhelsinger ("Elon Musk Tweets-Until 4/6/17"). The description of that data.world dataset says it holds the number from the tweet's address as the ID, the date and time the tweet was created, and the tweets and mentions. The package has no other fields: no author column, no counts and no replies structure.

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Analytics

7.9
Flesch–Kincaid grade
US school grade level
9.9
Automated readability index
Frequent terms
teslaxe2x80spacexmodelteslamotorslaunchgoodrocketxa6likedragonfalconcaryeselonmusklandingtimenewthanksgreatcarsautopilotpeopletestspacesolarmarsnasayearflighttodaybestrightneedweekworlddonhighlovestagelivebetterwayfuturesoonvideoarticlelotmaybe
Topic clusters

Topic 0

falcon
rocket
landing
thrust
engine
flight
leg
cape

Topic 1

autopilot
software
radar
sec
mph
mile
autonomous
camera

Topic 2

tweet
twitter
interesting
idea
hate
right
irony
think

Topic 3

week
update
month
come
release
upgrade
soon
software

Topic 4

dragon
station
space
spacecraft
crew
cargo
dock
mission

Topic 5

climate
change
tax
carbon
subsidy
global
scientist
record

Topic 6

droneship
orbit
ship
satellite
land
landing
target
spacex

Topic 7

solar
battery
power
pack
energy
solarcity
tesla
cell

Topic 8

tesla
model
car
test
owner
drive
new
study

Topic 9

yes
sure
agree
executive
judicial
rapid
perfect
continue

Topic 10

model
norway
unveil
production
squirrel
customer
reservation
inspire

Topic 11

alien
humanity
planet
deepmind
asimov
future
foundation
civilization
Show all 23 topics

Topic 12

launch
tomorrow
window
open
weather
satellite
live
webcast

Topic 13

thank
thanks
work
cool
want
bill
let
forward

Topic 14

tesla
breakfast
investor
nikola
news
article
pay
actually

Topic 15

play
game
monkey
cat
favorite
read
recommend
love

Topic 16

order
company
stock
production
resale
ramp
value
price

Topic 17

network
coast
charger
charge
east
free
cover
trip

Topic 18

mars
life
musk
elon
multiplanetary
extend
possible
million

Topic 19

dealer
auto
sale
direct
tesla
consumer
texas
pass

Topic 20

cool
chicken
wow
awesome
think
great
exactly
beautiful

Topic 21

car
model
survey
reports
satisfaction
consumer
receive
buy

Topic 22

point
probably
good
yeah
maybe
chance
wrong
possibly
Top hashtags
#dragon26
#tesla10
#dragonlaunch6
#falcon95
#iss5
#13
#apspacechat3
#model33
#modelx3
#dscovr2
#hawthorne2
#launchamerica2
#mars2
#meetmodelx2
#models2
#occupymars2
#onioninnovation2
#racingextinction2
#spacex2
#sxsw2
Tweets per day
02040602010-06-042012-08-032013-04-182014-02-072015-01-152015-09-302016-05-032016-10-182017-04-05DayTweets

Computed over the full corpus.

Record

Catalog key
elon-musk-tweets-2017
Authors
Helsinger, Adam
Year
2017
Source paper
Elon Musk Tweets until 4/6/17
License
No licence stated (data.world release)
Records
2,819
Nodes are
unknown
Edges are
unknown
Text corpus
tweet text
Languages
en
Collected
2010-06-04 to 2017-04-05 (2010s)
Region
Global (inferred: the platform is used worldwide)

Provenance

Originally published at
https://www.kaggle.com/datasets/kingburrito666/elon-musk-tweets link checked
Original files as received
The source files, unconverted, kept for reference: mirrored on echo.directory on 2026-10-20, 348.7 KB across 1 files. Checksums in MANIFEST.json. For use, start with the data package below.
Data package
Version 1.0.0 of this dataset as an ECHO Data Package: posts (2,819 rows).
Structure
Temporal (timestamped), Text

How to cite

BibTeX

@misc{echo2026,
  title  = {ECHO: Exploratory Compendium of Humanity Online},
  author = {Switzer, Braden and Zafarani, Reza},
  year   = {2026},
  url    = {https://echo.directory},
  note   = {Syracuse University}
}

@misc{helsinger2017elon,
  title     = {Elon Musk Tweets until 4/6/17},
  author    = {Helsinger, Adam},
  year      = {2017},
  publisher = {data.world}
}

APA

Switzer, B., & Zafarani, R. (2026). ECHO: Exploratory Compendium of Humanity Online [Data repository]. Syracuse University. https://echo.directory

Helsinger, A. (2017). Elon Musk Tweets, 2010 to April 2017 [Data set]. https://elon-musk-tweets-2017.echo.directory/

MLA

Switzer, Braden, and Reza Zafarani. ECHO: Exploratory Compendium of Humanity Online. Syracuse University, 2026, echo.directory.

Helsinger, Adam. Elon Musk Tweets, 2010 to April 2017. 2017, elon-musk-tweets-2017.echo.directory/.

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